cruáil

Irish

Alternative forms

• cruadáil, cruadháil, cruagáil
• cruadhdáil, cruadhdháil, cruadh-dháil, cruaidh-dháil (obsolete)

Etymology

From crua (“hard”) +‎ dáil (“conditions”).

Noun

cruáil f (genitive singular cruála)

1. cruelty [with le ‘towards’]
2. hardship, adversity
3. stinginess

Declension

Declension of cruáil (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cruáil vocative a chruáil genitive cruála dative cruáil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chruáil genitive na cruála dative leis an gcruáil don chruáil

Synonyms

• (cruelty): cruálacht
• (hardship, adversity): anró, cruatan
• (stinginess): ceacharthacht, sprionlaitheacht, gortaíl

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruáil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cruáil	chruáil	gcruáil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cruaḋáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 201
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cruáil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN